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HARVEY D. HAEADEN, 0E AEAETEORD, VERMONT.

Letters Paten: No. 77,037-, ated April 2*'1, 186s.

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To ALL PERSONS To wHoM THESE PRESENTS MAY COME:`

Be it known thatl I, HARVEY D. HARAISEN, of Hartford, in the county ofWindsor, and State of Vermont, have invented an Improved Clothes-Pin orSpring-Clip; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described inthe following specification and represented in the accompanyingdrawings, of whieh Figure 1 is aside elevation, and

Figure 2 a top view of it.

' Figure is a side view of the block, showing the arrangement of thesaw-kerfs made in it for converting it into a clothes-pin.

In making the saidclothes-pin, I take a lpiece of wood, A, in theform`of a quadrilateral prism, and first bore a. hole, b, through itlaterally, vnear one end of it, and nearer to-the lower than to theupper edge ofit. Next, by means of a saw, I make a, kerf or slitlengthwise in the piece of wood, the said lcert being arranged 4i'nmanner as represented at a, which shows it as going diametricallythrough the hole b, and extending about two-thirds the distance throughthe piece, from that end of it which is next tothe hole b. Next I maketwo other saw-kerfs in the piece from its-other end, and at an acuteangle with each other, in manner as shown at e andfin g. 3, whereby Iremove from the piece a wedge, g, and form it with an open space, asshown at 'c in fig. 1. The portion it, comprehended between the slits aandfand their inner ends, isthus made to operate as a hinge andspring-connection'ot` two jaw-levers, 1:, made by sawing into the piecein manner as described.

I prefer, however, to place. within the space c 4a metallic spring, d,which I insert in the piece-A at the vertex of the opening, c,thespring'being bent so as to bear against the tails of both levers.

In this 'way I form, from asingle piece of wood, a spring-clip orclothes-pin. A

-I do not claim a furoated clothes-pin made of a single piece of wood,split or sawed into from one end only; that is tosay, so to make it inthe form as represented in fig. 4 of Vthe accompanying drawings.

Nor do I claim a clothes-pin as represented in the -United StatesPatent, No. 14,262.

' In my invention the jaws z' 7c are formed by. the single slit orsaw-kerf a, of an equal width throughout, and' I make but onespring-opening, c, and I employ a separate spring, d, which I arrangetherein in manner as represented.

I therefore claim my improved clothes-pin, consisting not onlyof thepiece of wood A, Ahaving the slit a, the angular opening c, and the holeb,` formed and arranged in-vit as described, but of the spring darranged in the said slit, the whole being substantially as described.

Witnesses RUEUs H. SIMoNDs, HORACE C. PEASE.

, HARVEY D. HARADEN.

